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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Official position of Hongwanji on the matter of "after death" birth in The Pure Land

In many articles on this website, in my books or on my Facebook
pages I presented to you many explanations and passages from the sacred texts
in which it is clearly stated that the Pure Land of Amida Buddha is to be
attained after death and that it is not to be found “here and now”, or in “one’s
mind”, as some nowadays deluded scholars and priests in the international Jodo Shinshu sangha claim.

In this short post I intend to show to you that our Jodo Shinshu
Hongwanji-ha (Nishi Hongwanji) religious organisation does NOT officially
sustain the aberrant views of those scholars and priests. The following two
passages are from an official document of our school, Jodo Shinshu Kyosho (The
Essential of Jodo Shinshu) and from a statement made by the former Monshu
(Patriarch/Leader) of Hongwanji, His Eminence Koshin Ohtani, the 24th successor of Shinran
Shonin and also the one who ordained me. In the passages you can read by yourself that birth in the Pure Land is
to be understood as taking place after death, in perfect agrement with the
sacred texts of our tradition:

His Eminence Zenmon sama, Koshin Ohtani

“Attain­ing the “entrust­ing
heart”—awakening to the com­pas­sion of Amida Tatha­gata through
the work­ing of the Pri­mal Vow—we shall walk the path of life recit­ing
Amida’s Name (Nem­butsu). At the end of life, we will be born in the
Pure Land and attain Bud­dha­hood, return­ing at once to this delu­sional
world to guide peo­ple to awakening.”

“Upon realizing
shinjin, we enter the life of nembutsu – the life of saying the Name of Amida
Buddha – and without any contrivance or self-will, we are brought naturally to
attainment of supreme Buddhahood in the Pure Land when life ends.”

His Eminence Koshin Ohtani Opening Address in America no
shukyo o tazunete/Shin Buddhism Meets American Religions, at the symposium “Shin
Buddhism and Christianity: Textual and Contextual Translation”, held at Harvard
Divinity School in April 1984

Given the proof of the above Kyosho document wouldn't be honest and fare that those who promote false teachings related with birth in the Pure Land, just leave Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha branch and found their own school? Why are they still wearing the kesa of Hongwanji while they actually go against its teachings and official documents? Certainly, the time has come for Hongwanji to clean its house of false teachers....

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